Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [indef pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Trust is responsible for protecting one in every six miles of coastline in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | The hypothesis that can explain bat navigation is a good candidate for explaining anything in the world of life , and if Paley 's explanation for any one of his examples was wrong we ca n't make it right by multiplying up examples . |
| 3 | An interest in kestrels had developed among a group of boys after seeing one in a London street during a school trip . |
| 4 | She knows she could have gone much further but would not dream of stabbing anyone in the back to get on , even if they deserved it . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) The offences referred to in sub-section ( 1 ) above are offences of stealing anything in the building or part of a building in question , of inflicting on any person therein any grievous bodily harm or raping any woman therein , and of doing unlawful damage to the building or anything therein . |
| 6 | Bingham wants to hand over to his successor a highly competent squad capable of doing something in the European Championships and the basis of it is certainly there . |
| 7 | This route to the Jabri Nullah proved elusive and highlights one of the problems of doing anything in the Himalayas : poor maps and strange local information . |
| 8 | The wine and the excitement of having someone in the house to talk to . |
| 9 | ‘ And this is where she 's really going to feel the benefit of having someone in the family who knows about insurance . ’ |
| 10 | Your ‘ interviewer ’ should sit behind a desk or table so that you can get the feel of approaching someone in a ‘ dominant ’ situation . |
| 11 | And I thought of putting something in the paper , asking anyone born on April the tenth that year at Thorn House to get in touch . |
| 12 | I mean luckily you , you know , you 'd gone on a car , with a car so it 's a matter of throwing everything in the back and just going |
| 13 | When I arrived at Althorp the housekeeper , Joyce Cole , told me that she had orders banning me from touching anything in the house . |
| 14 | An alternative procedure would be to ask a lot of speakers to say a list of sentences in different ways according to labels provided by the analyst , and see what intonational features are found in common ( for example , one might count how many speakers used a low head in saying something in a ‘ hostile ’ way ) . |
| 15 | If they see , some advantage in putting something in a particular way , they 'll do that . |
| 16 | I do nt think there s anything to be gained from throwing everyone in the box for one of the crosses . |
| 17 | If you are a mother-to-be or planning on becoming one in the near future join Harpers & Queen On Location on Wednesday 11 April for our Maternity Workshops at Harrods , Knightsbridge , SW1 . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's all I could do , without alerting everyone in the neighbourhood . |
| 19 | If her personality tends to be an obsessive one — if she is excessively devoted to tidiness and perfect order in every part of her life and home , a great maker of ‘ lists ’ for everything and a habitual ‘ double-checker ’ in all her activities — you may find that although she is grieving deeply , she may throw herself with remarkable zeal into the business of ‘ tidying up ’ her husband 's financial affairs and concentrating even more strongly on getting everything in the house cleaned and polished ; for this is the method used by most people who are inclined to be obsessional , to control their anxiety . |
| 20 | Then , by watching and joining in with the children 's play , the balance of new and old can be altered as their interests change , without having everything in the water at once . |
| 21 | Police say the attacker drove off without taking anything in a white or grey car . |
| 22 | No what about putting something in the middle then ? |
| 23 | Michael Landy 's ‘ Closing Down Sale ’ at Karsten Schubert ( to 30 May ) is his most important exhibition since ‘ Market ’ was installed at Building One in the autumn of 1990 . |
| 24 | They are , of course , very adept at absorbing everything in a brief but this is no substitute for a profound knowledge and understanding of the subject . |
| 25 | If you work very hard at making somebody in a record company come and see you , that is probably as good a way as any to get some indication of your music 's commercial potential . |
| 26 | When asked why he could not enter , the guard replied , ‘ Oh , you can by dropping something in the box ’ . |
| 27 | In deciding where we should go we have to transfer ‘ ownership ’ of the direction by involving everyone in the decision . |
| 28 | If the information is accidentally overheard or intercepted in circumstances where the owner of the information utters it or transmits it by insecure means ( for example , by telling someone in a crowded room or by transmitting the information by a public telecommunications system ) an obligation of confidence might not be imposed on the person obtaining the information in this manner . |